The penalty is death [electronic resource] : U.S. newspaper coverage of women's executions / Marlin Shipman
- Author:
- Shipman, Marlin
- Published:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Murdered Family Members and Other Schemes -- Chapter 1. Viragos and Unnatural Mothers -- Nineteenth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 2. The Demons Decline -- Twentieth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 3. Husbands and Other Family Members -- Chapter 4. Other Schemes -- Part II. Jazz Journalism and the Execution Story As Drama -- Chapter 5. Excesses in 1920s Louisiana -- Chapter 6. Female Mass Murderers in the Late 1930s -- Chapter 7. Execution Stories As Serial Dramas -- Part III. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Preference -- Chapter 8. Pre-Civil War Press and Slave Executions -- Chapter 9. Twentieth-Century Black Defendants -- Chapter 10. The Irish -- More Animal Than Human? -- Chapter 11. Sexual Preference -- Changes during the Past Fifty Years -- Part IV. Hollywood, Female "Tough Guys," and Love Triangles -- Chapter 12. Southern California Defendants -- Chapter 13. The Female "Tough Guy" -- Chapter 14. Little Attention for "First" Executions -- Chapter 15. Love Triangles -- Chapter 16. Little Support for Changes to -- Execution Laws -- Chapter 17. Government Secrecy of Executions -- under Federal Authority -- Part V. The Late 1990s and Beyond -- Chapter 18. The High-Tech Media at the End of the -- Twentieth Century -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index.
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- ISBN:
- 0826213863
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-317) and index.
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